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In March 2022, as Russia continued its deadly attack on Ukraine, an old picture supposedly showing Russian President Vladimir Putin riding a bear was recirculated on social media: This is not a genuine photograph but a digital composite created by combining at least two different pictures. The image of Putin, for example, was taken from a different picture that showed the Russian president riding a horse in 2009. Here's a comparison of the genuine photograph (left) and the doctored image (right): The horse-riding photograph on the left is one of several released over the years by the Kremlin, apparently in order to bolster Putin's masculine image. The New York Times reported on these photo-ops in 2021: This is not the only doctored image to show Putin riding a bear. An animated clip supposedly showing Putin riding a bear racked up tens of thousands of views in March 2022 on TikTok. This video is also fake. Here's the original footage of the bear before Putin was digitally inserted into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OmZX-yTmrw
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